Joel 1:10-20

10The crops of the fields have been destroyed. The ground is in mourning because the grain has perished. The fresh wine has dried up; the olive oil languishes.

11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

12The vine has dried up; the fig tree languishes – the pomegranate, date, and apple as well. In fact, all the trees of the field have dried up. Indeed, the joy of the people has dried up!

13Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.

14Announce a holy fast; proclaim a sacred assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the temple of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

15How awful that day will be! For the day of the Lord is near; it will come as destruction from the Divine Destroyer.

16Our food has been cut off right before our eyes! There is no longer any joy or gladness in the temple of our God!

17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

18Listen to the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander around in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

19To you, O Lord, I call out for help, for fire has burned up the grassy pastures, flames have razed all the trees in the fields.

20Even the wild animals cry out to you; for the river beds have dried up; fire has destroyed the grassy pastures.